AMD acquires World Labs in $8.2 billion deal to bolster AI systems strategy ↧ ↧ AMD acquires World Labs in $8.2 billion deal to bolster AI systems ... Advanced Micro Devices said on Monday it would acquire Fei-Fei Li's AI ​startup World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at $8.2 ‌billion, giving the chipmaker deeper access to research on AI systems that can understand and simulate the physical world.